Even as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) faces allegations of negligence in handling COVID-19 patients, the relative of a woman who died at Kandivli’s Shatabdi hospital on July 2, tested positive days after he was forced to help her son wrap her body without following proper safety measures. After he underwent a swab test on July 4, fearing that he might have contracted the virus, the results came positive the following day.

MID-DAY had reported on July 4 on how some Shatabdi hospital staff made 21-year-old Kunal Utekar wrap his mother’s (Pallavi Utekar) body without following proper safety measures. Kunal had called his 30-year-old cousin to help him lift the body from the ward and put it on a stretcher. They had taken help from two other hospital staffers.